Woody Harrelson recently revealed he has had run-ins with both U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump and needed to consume cannabis to be able to get through his encounter with the latter.

Harrelson recently told Esquire about the lengthy 2002 dinner, at what he describes as the gilt-covered, offensively ornate upper chambers of Trump Tower, and it was “brutal”.

“So, we all met at Trump Tower, sat down. Melania (Trump) was there, only she wasn’t his wife yet. And it was, let me tell you, a brutal dinner. Two and a half hours,” Harrelson groaned, before continuing to describe his relatively silent ordeal over hors d’oevres.

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“Now, at a fair table with four people, each person is entitled to 25 percent of the conversation, right? I’d say Melania got about 0.1 percent, maybe. I got about one percent. And the governor, Jesse [Ventura], he got about three percent. Trump took the rest. It got so bad I had to go outside and burn one before returning to the monologue monopoly.”

Harrelson managed to survive the dinner, but the incident left a lasting impression on him.

“Listen, I came up through Hollywood, so I’ve seen narcissists,” Harrelson says. “This guy was beyond. It blew my mind.”

The actor also described a past meeting with Vice-President Mike Pence, with whom he attended college. “As a freshman, I gave a sermon to a youth group, and Mike was the guy running the show,” he said.

“He was a junior, I think. He struck me as a nice guy, very sincere. I don’t know how well we’d get along now, but we got along okay then.”

No word on whether Harrelson was stoned for that encounter as well. Regardless, it’s unlikely that anyone would blame him if he was. Stars, they’re just like us!

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